Hi,
On Aug 11, 2009, at 13:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
wrote:
> Leigh Dodds wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just added several new datasets to the Statistics page that
>> weren't previously listed. Its not really a great user experience
>> editing the wiki markup and manually adding up the figures.
>>
>> So, thinking out loud, I'm wondering whether it might be more
>> appropriate to use a Google spreadsheet and one of their submission
>> forms for the purposes of collectively the data. A little manual
>> editing to remove duplicates might make managing this data a little
>> more easier. Especially as there are also pages that separately list
>> the available SPARQL endpoints and RDF dumps.
>>
>> I'm sure we could create something much better using Void, etc but
>> for
>> now, maybe using a slightly better tool would give us a little more
>> progress? It'd be a snip to dump out the Google Spreadsheet data
>> programmatically too, which'd be another improvement on the current
>> situation.
>>
>> What does everyone else think?
>>
> Nice Idea! Especially as Google Spreadsheet to RDF is just about
> RDFizers for the Google Spreadsheet API :-)
Hehe. I have this in my todo (literally). A website that exposes a
google spreadsheet as SPARQL endpoint. Internally we use it as UI to
quickly create config files et Al.
But It will remain in my todo forever...;)
Kingsley, this could be sponged. The trick is that the spreadsheet
must have an accompanying page/sheet/book with metadata (the NS or
explicit URIs for cols).
>
> Kingsley
>> Cheers,
>>
>> L.
>>
>> 2009/8/7 Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We are planning to produce an updated data cloud diagram based on
>>> the
>>> dataset information on the esw wiki page:
>>> http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics
>>>
>>> If you have not published your dataset there yet and you would
>>> like your
>>> dataset to be included, can you please add your dataset there?
>>>
>>> If you have an entry there for your dataset already, can you
>>> please update
>>> information about your dataset on the wiki?
>>>
>>> If you cannot edit the wiki page any more because the recent
>>> update of esw
>>> wiki editing policy, you can send the information to me or Anja,
>>> who is
>>> cc'ed. We can update it for you.
>>>
>>> If you know your friends have dataset on the wiki, but are not on
>>> the
>>> mailing list, can you please kindly forward this email to them? We
>>> would
>>> like to get the data cloud as up-to-date as possible.
>>>
>>> For this release, we will use the above wiki page as the information
>>> gathering point. We do apologize if you have published information
>>> about
>>> your dataset on other web pages and this request would mean extra
>>> work for
>>> you.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your contributions!
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>> Jun
>>>
>>>
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